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Kikori-KS: An Effective and Efficient Keyword Search System for Digital Libraries in XML
Toshiyuki Shimizu (Kyoto University) Norimasa Terada (Nagoya University) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University)
ICADL 2006 29th November
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Outline
Background Summary of our Contribution Kikori-KS
User Interfaces Implementation of Keyword Search on Relational
Databases
Ranking Model
Experiments Conclusions, Future Works
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Background (1/2)
Large number of documents in digital
libraries are now structured in XML
Growing demand for XML Information
Retrieval (XML-IR) Systems
We can identify meaningful document fragments
by encoding documents in XML
ex) Sections, subsections and paragraphs
in scholarly articles
Browsing only document fragments relevant to a certain
topic
Keyword search on XML documents
Simple, intuitively understandable, yet useful form of
queries, especially for unskilled end-users
We do not need to understand XML query languages and
XML schema
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Background (2/2)
For the keyword “database”
article title section section title p XML Index Query processing… Introduction body transaction database title p …XML database XML Labeling
: Element Node : Text Value 5
Outline
Background Summary of our Contribution Kikori-KS
User Interfaces Implementation of Keyword Search on Relational
Databases
Ranking Model
Experiments Conclusions, Future Works
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Summary of our Contribution
We have developed Kikori-KS
A prototype system for XML-IR Under Kikori Project Accepts Keyword Set as a query
User-friendly interface
FetchHighlight interface
Storage schema on RDB
The database schema is carefully designed Acceptable search time